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Starling
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Mar 31 2015, 7:08am
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Suburbs returning to nature
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I thought some of you might be interested in seeing these.
Drone footage of Bexley, Christchurch.
And Avonside, Christchurch, (very close to where I lived pre earthquakes).
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Elizabeth
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Mar 31 2015, 8:30am
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I was particularly interested in the related article to the effect that Sir Miles Warren's design for the Cathedral is still in the running. Thanks for these!
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MistyMountain
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Mar 31 2015, 2:20pm
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I am in the US and this is a term I am unfamiliar with. What does it mean?
After the earthquake, did the govt buy the homeowners out? Why? Here in the States, people just stubbornly rebuild after every disaster (which is stupid IMO).
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Starling
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Mar 31 2015, 5:16pm
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The land was mapped into different coloured zones
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Areas were red zoned because the land was considered too badly damaged to repair due to liquefaction, lateral spreading (especially near the river), and the high risk of liquifaction in future earthquakes. The government bought out the owners so that they could move on and then the houses were demolished, about 8,000 of them.
That's the factual information, the human detail of this process is something else.
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Elizabeth
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Mar 31 2015, 6:36pm
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What's up with the "surviving" houses?
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The article mentioned some people still hanging on. Does that mean they didn't have to accept the buy-out?
It's really hard to imaging what that would have been like for the residents, having their lives turned upside down. Should our govt have bought out the flooded parts of New Orleans after Katrina? The Marina district of San Francisco after the 1989 quake?
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Starling
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Mar 31 2015, 6:53pm
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some are still in dispute with EQC and/or their insurance company.
The people still living there mostly don't have any services or amenities.
Because it was decided the land could not be fixed there really was no option except buying people out.
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Brethil
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Mar 31 2015, 7:04pm
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What is the eventual intent, Starling? Any ideas?
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To let the land return to wild space? Or can it be used for some sort of farming (of course, I am thinking orchards) with no dwellings?
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Mar 31 2015, 8:40pm
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And good to know that the devastation in Christchurch might help cities around the world mitigate the potential of liquefaction.
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zarabia
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Apr 1 2015, 3:53am
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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picher,_Oklahoma
In certain situations the government will buy out homes or even a whole town as in the case of Picher, Oklahoma. Not to compare Starling's beautiful city of Christchurch struck so cruely by earthquakes to this sad little town devastated by mining, but Picher was considered unsafe for habitation and was bought out by the government, though a few refused to leave.
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round
~Do You Realize?, The Flaming Lips
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zarabia
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Apr 1 2015, 4:12am
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The land looks so stable and safe; it doesn't look like some areas along coasts that appear so precarious that a heavy rain could bring them down. But on second look, it seemed I was seeing sandy areas where the liquifaction occured. But maybe that's my imagination.
BTW, is that the river you and little Midgey walked beside as you followed the flowers as they floated along?
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round
~Do You Realize?, The Flaming Lips
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Starling
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Apr 1 2015, 5:10am
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how bad that land is. Some of those roads I could never drive my car along as I would never get out the other side. All that land is still moving and shifting around, as is a lot of the land around here. It's a rather dynamic world we live in!
Some of the sandy patches will be old liquefaction, other patches will be a result of demolitions and heavy machinery, plus we have been having a summer drought this year.
The river in the Avonside video is the Avon, which was my river when I lived in the city. Now we walk along the Heathcote river, which is the one I was referring to in the post about following the flowers. You can see some parts of the Heathcote in the Bexley video, as it gets closer to the sea.
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Starling
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Apr 1 2015, 5:21am
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...but there are plenty of conspiracy theories floating around!
There is a plan to have lovely greenspaces, walkways and cycleways all along the river to the sea, but we are kind of running out of money and they have stopped part way along the river.
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Brethil
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Apr 1 2015, 12:27pm
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That sounds lovely if it can work out
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especially the walkways along the river so that space can be enjoyed as the rest goes wild again. Alas for lack of funding.
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